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Spectrum Oil Monotype
Breakthru II Watercolor Monotype 24" x 18"
Born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, worked and married in Washington, D.C. Earned B.A. Degree in painting at the American University. The summer of her senior year was spent painting in Brittany, France with George Washington University.
Moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1980. Did postgraduate work (primarily printmaking, in etching, silkscreen, woodblock and monotype) at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Bennington College, Vermont, Indiana University and the Scuola Lorenzo di Medici, Florence, Italy.
She has participated in numerous juried exhibitions throughout the country. Also in open and juried exhibits as a member of the Monotype Guild of New England (MGNE), the Printmakers of Cape Cod and the cooperative Gallery X in New Bedford, MA. She has shown her work in one, two and three-person exhibitions on Cape Cod and New Bedford. Awards include: Honorable Mention, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL and has a print in their permanent collection. First Prize for graphics at the Cape Cod Art Association and the Chatham Creative Arts Center, Cape Cod. In 2001, her print BIG PEACH, LITTLE PEAR, won Second in the Duxbury (MA) Art Museum’s juried exhibit. In 2002 she was awarded the “Juror’s Choice Award” at the Attleboro Museum Exhibit.
Ms. Smith’s present interest is in the monotype/monoprint. Some of her recent work involves aquatinted zinc etching plates cut into various geometric shapes. These are rolled up with ink in black or color, placed in various configurations together on an etching press with a piece of dampened, 100% rag paper over them and printed. The result is shades of gray/black or color. These plates are re-inked moved to a different position and printed again. This results in deeper shades or new mixed colors when they are laid over the previous print. This print may go through the press several times. The effect can be and has been in this series, a luminosity of color and subtle shading in a geometric design.
Ms Smith has taught art/workshops on Cape Cod and in Maine. In monotypes, other techniques can be used. Combinations of woodblock, linocut, etching, silkscreen, cutout stencils and free-hand painting, can all be used in one print. Some prints are combined with parts of other prints which are collaged to add texture, variety and sometimes a 3-D effect. (Ms. Smith’s print FLY ME TO THE MOON has examples of some of these techniques.) Smith is past president of MGNE and now vice-president of the Printmakers of Cape Cod.
E-mail: milrog@capecod.net
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